Ascender in Honduras

[Natedog]

Agreed, pics are great! Trailing and crawling pics are the best.

 

[cartronicshn]

Little update, a Little late.... first test drive, so far so good, this was 2 months ago.

 

[Johnnysplits]

You just gotta love that steering!!

 

[new2rocks]

You just gotta love that steering!!

And to think you almost sold yours. :roll:

 

[Johnnysplits]

And to think you almost sold yours. :roll:

Yeah man wtf was I thinking??

 

[cartronicshn]

Got some time to work on the ascender, put in the 2 speed from a TH, and got started on the led wiring mess:roll:

 

[Johnnysplits]

Are those butt connectors I see going to the motor?

 

[cartronicshn]

Are those butt connectors I see going to the motor?

temporary yep, i am waiting on some 12awg wire to complete the esc/motor wiring.

 

[Natedog]

Are those butt connectors I see going to the motor?

:shock:

temporary yep, i am waiting on some 12awg wire to complete the esc/motor wiring.

Ok, but much better to get them soldered up instead, those would never last one run with a powerful motor...you'd have smoke and maybe fire.

LEDs are off to a good start, are you doing rock lights too? Mmmmm....two-speed tranny, git r dun. "thumbsup"

 

[cartronicshn]

Working on some other stuff before i rewire the whole thing:mrgreen:

 

[Johnnysplits]

You should have went for the GCM axle truss over the rulr. Oh and F 2 speeds!

 

[cartronicshn]

You should have went for the GCM axle truss over the rulr. Oh and F 2 speeds!

:shock: 2 speeds??

 

[Johnnysplits]

:shock: 2 speeds??

Yeah. That trans is setup to be a 2 speed with some extra parts.

 

[cartronicshn]

Yeah. That trans is setup to be a 2 speed with some extra parts.

don't quite follow? it is a 2 speed, all i did was add a servo and it worked as such.

 

[cartronicshn]

oooh, you are referring to the stock unit? yes i know it only needs a couple of parts to make it into a 2 speed, around $60 i think in parts, the thing is i got a great deal on my 2 speed for only $40, and get to keep the single speed for another project.

 

[cartronicshn]

so i got to use some cheap beadlocks i had laying around, trying to figure out what style of good wheels to get, so i mounted these up and they don't look horrible, what do you guys think?

 

[BrotherAndySLB]

Look close to the soft 8 design. I'd personally have to paint them black, other than that not bad.

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[Natedog]

Looks good to me how they are, or maybe paint them matching metallic blue? Grey or gun metal grey would be cool.

 

[cartronicshn]

So every few months i get time to work on any given rig, this due to 12 hour work days:roll:, i finally got the tranny working perfectly with a nice hitec mini sevo, pics later;-).
i have a question, does anyone have a 2 speed mounted upfront? how is the space to mount the body an interiror if you have such a setup?

 

[Natedog]

IIRC new2rocks does in his Roo build here!